4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Four Color 1226

COMIC DETAILS

Comic Description: Four Color #1226 Universal
Grade: 9.4
Page Quality: OFF-WHITE TO WHITE
Pedigree: File Copy
Certification #: 0780735004
Owner: 4GEMWORKS

SET DETAILS

Winning Set: 4GEMWORKS COMPLETE FOUR COLOR EMPORIUM
Date Added: 4/24/2008
Research: See CGC's Census Report for this Comic

Owner's Description

Walt Disney’s Nikki, Wild Dog of the North 9/61 File Copy Adapted from the 1961 movie "Nikki, Wild Dog of the North."

Photo Cover: Nikki (dog) (photo); Andre Dupas (as played by Jean Coutu, photo); Makoki (as played by Ureil Luft, photo)
Script: Eric Freiwald; Robert Schaefer
Pencils & Inks: Sparky Moore

This copy is tied with six others as third best of 12 copies graded to date. A pair of 9.4’s are tied on the lead. I originally bought this graded, as is, from Heritage Auctions.


Table of Contents
1. 0. Walt Disney's Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
2. 1. Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
3. 2. Nikki Wild Dog of the North
4. 3. The Factors
5. 4. Malemutes This is a single page feature and the back cover of some issues.
6. 5. Official Huck Hound Club Special Membership Offer!
Kellogg's Corn Flakes This is the AD back version and also the back cover of this and some other copies of the issue.

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http://www.comics.org/issue/16654/

Wikipedia adds a slight bit more detail regarding the original movie that this comic book was based on.

Nikki, Wild Dog of the North is the title character and a 1961 Walt Disney film directed by Jack Couffer and Don Haldane.
This story, based on the novel "Nomads of the North" by James Oliver Curwood, is about the adventures of a malamute dog named Nikki. Nikki and his kind master, Andre Dupas, are traveling via canoe through the Canadian Rockies. When Nikki encounters Neewa, a bear cub that's lost its mother, Andre ties the two animals together, plops them in the canoe, and heads for the rapids. When the two animals become separated from Andre, the unlikely pair must learn to survive in the wilderness. What is initially a relationship of hate and incompatibility transforms into one of compromise and friendship between species. Encounters with timber wolves, lynx, wolverines, Grizzly bears and many other wild animals are vividly photographed and give viewers a real sense of life in the wild. When Neewa begins his long winter hibernation, Nikki sets off alone on a desperate hunt for food. Man's scent leads him not to the friendly Andre Dupas, but to an angry trader who attempts to trap and poison him, eventually capturing him and training him as a fighting dog. This 73-minute feature has absolutely breathtaking animal and nature photography and the action is plentiful and absorbing. Especially forward-thinking for its time (1961) are its declaration that Indians don't deserve to be treated as slaves, but as equals in the quest to trap animals, and its assertion that dog fights are "cruel, savage, not human, and bloodthirsty." Nonetheless, animal-rights activists and sensitive children alike will find disturbing the shots of steel traps in use, the incident in which Neewa and Nikki almost choke one another with the line that joins them, and the gruesome dog fight scene.
It won the 1962 Eddie from the American Cinema Editors for Best Edited Special (Documentary).[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki,_Wild_Dog_of_the_North
 
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